{"id":86906,"date":"2020-05-15T18:37:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=86906"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T10:40:51","slug":"pm-modi-gates-video-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/pm-modi-gates-video-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi and Gates video conference."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a <strong>video conference<\/strong>, <strong>Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/strong> <strong>co-chair Bill Gates and Prime Minister Modi<\/strong> agreed that given <strong>India&#8217;s willingness<\/strong> and capacity to contribute to <strong>global efforts<\/strong>, it was important for New Delhi to be included in the <strong>global discussions for coordinating responses<\/strong> to the pandemic. Modi also underlined the conscious approach that India has adopted in its fight against the health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>An <strong>official statement<\/strong> pointed out that India&#8217;s approach is based on ensuring public engagement through appropriate messaging.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>prime minister<\/strong> highlighted initiatives taken by the government such as expanding financial inclusion, strengthening last mile delivery of health services, popularising cleanliness and hygiene, \u00a0 helped increase the effectiveness of India&#8217;s response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, the <strong>prime minister<\/strong> also suggested that the <strong>Gates Foundation<\/strong> could take the lead in analysing the necessary changes in lifestyles, economic organisation, social behaviour, modes of <strong>disseminating education and healthcare<\/strong>, that would emerge in the <strong>post-COVID world<\/strong>. He said that India would be happy to contribute to such an analytical exercise, based on its own experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a video conference, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair Bill Gates and Prime Minister Modi agreed that given India&#8217;s willingness and capacity to contribute to global efforts, it was important for New Delhi to be included in the global discussions for coordinating responses to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17,1511],"tags":[80460,3136,92143,73,95867,59455,95866],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/05\/15183612\/BN-KO577_modiga_M_20151001052409.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86906"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=86906"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=86906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->